Coward Cops REFUSED To Save School Children's Lives During Texas Shooting

you think the gov is going to go around rounding up all the weapons of its citizens? That’s a mass slaughter. You seem to fail at understanding the value of the 2A in the US.

 

Did it take you all night to come up with an answer so vapid, so intellectual dishonest, and simultaneously devoid of logic? What I am claiming is that the gun bans made little difference in most in countries because of differences in age and culture. The last mass murders I recall in Europe were done by young disaffected Muslim males two used garbage trucks, and of course Paris where in spite of quite strict gun legislation, they used guns and grenades.

My point simply was this older populations, and differences in culture produce different result when it comes to the likelihood of mass shooting and gun bans at best change the weapon of choice.

 

If they go in and are gunned down virtually no one other than their families and other LEOs care.
If they go in and gun down the killer they will probably have to face a grand jury.

The police should be afraid. I am amazed that PD's are still able to recruit.

 

~ Sad but true ...

 

Actually, you can. It is their duty to stop an active shooter. If they can't do the job they shouldn't be a cop.

 

How about if righties just stop defacing the flag altogether. It is virtually the definition of being Un-American

18 U.S. Code § 700 - Desecration of the flag of the United States; penalties. Whoever knowingly mutilates, defaces, physically defiles, burns, maintains on the floor or ground, or tramples upon any flag of the United States shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.

This one really torques me. They are literally trashing the flag and calling it patriotism.

And trump even did it as president with school children! That was treasonous!

 

No, it doesn't represent Texas cops, but the idea @Arkanis should "interview every police officer in the state" is a bit much. Did you interview every cop before commenting?

A six-member school police department in a town of 15,000 people? Really? What do those six cops do all day?

 

I can blame them for not going after the shooter.

 

They weren't defunded. Get a clue.

 

A six-member school police department in a community of 15,000 seems really screwy. Why was the school police chief in charge of dealing with the shooter?

 

Some people shouldn't have weapons of any kind.

This from the Alzheimer's Association:

"Firearms and other weapons can be found in households across the country. In most situations, their presence creates no problems for responsible gun owners and others in the household. However, if someone in the home is living with Alzheimer’s or another dementia, firearms can pose a significant risk for everyone.

For example, as the disease progresses, the person may not recognize someone he or she has known for years and view him or her as an intruder. With a gun accessible, the result could be disastrous. Even if the person has past experience with guns, his or her current abilities will be altered because the safe use of firearms requires complex cognitive abilities and quick decision-making skills, which may be compromised due to dementia."​

https://www.alz.org/media/Documents/alzheimers-dementia-firearm-safety-ts.pdf

My brother-in-law took the car keys and Lugar away from his 93-year-old dad. We need some common sense ways of at least making less likely someone might act impulsively.

Would a reasonable measure have stopped the Texas shooter? Probably not.

 

Not every where no and not completely but they damn well were in a lot. NYC for instance lost a big chunk of it's budget final act of stupidity and worst most of it came from the intelligence department whose job was to figure out where gang violence and school shootings were likely to happen and help prevent. In . Minneapolis the police budget was cut considerably like wise Seattle and Portland.

 

The only thing making guns readily available to sick people is the leftist stance on involuntary commitment, which makes it essentially impossible to lock those people up before they kill someone.

 

Yes, some people should not have guns -- that is why everyone else should have guns.

 

How about laws that allow us the confiscate firearms for senile or mentally ill people?

 

A lot of our left wing friends will be in jail or worse if we start prosecuting people for not following the official government design and colors of the flag.

"As with the design, the official colors are only officially required for flags produced for the U.S. federal government..." Wiki

"Design
Specifications


The basic design of the current flag is specified by 4 U.S.C. § 1; 4 U.S.C. § 2 outlines the addition of new stars to represent new states, with no distinction made for the shape, size, or arrangement of the stars. Specifications for federal government use adhere to the following values:[76]

• Hoist (height) of the flag: A = 1.0
• Fly (width) of the flag: B = 1.9[77]
• Hoist (height) of the canton ("union"): C = 0.5385 (A × 7/13, spanning seven stripes)
• Fly (width) of the canton: D = 0.76 (B × 2/5, two-fifths of the flag width)
• E = F = 0.0538 (C/10, one-tenth of the height of the canton)
• G = H = 0.0633 (D/12, one twelfth of the width of the canton)
• Diameter of star: K = 0.0616 (L × 4/5, four-fifths of the stripe width, the calculation only gives 0.0616 if L is first rounded to 0.077)
• Width of stripe: L = 0.0769 (A/13, one thirteenth of the flag height)

These specifications are contained in an executive order which, strictly speaking, governs only flags made for or by the U.S. federal government.[78] In practice, most U.S. national flags available for sale to the public have a different width-to-height ratio; common sizes are 2 × 3 ft. or 4 × 6 ft. (flag ratio 1.5), 2.5 × 4 ft. or 5 × 8 ft. (1.6), or 3 × 5 ft. or 6 × 10 ft. (1.667). Even flags flown over the U.S. Capitol for sale to the public through Representatives or Senators are provided in these sizes.[79] Flags that are made to the prescribed 1.9 ratio are often referred to as "G-spec" (for "government specification") flags.

Colors
The exact red, white, and blue colors to be used in the flag are specified with reference to the CAUS Standard Color Reference of America, 10th edition. Specifically, the colors are "White", "Old Glory Red", and "Old Glory Blue".[80] The CIE coordinates for the colors of the 9th edition of the Standard Color Card were formally specified in JOSA in 1946.[81] These colors form the standard for cloth, and there is no perfect way to convert them to RGB for display on screen or CMYK for printing. The "relative" coordinates in the following table were found by scaling the luminous reflectance relative to the flag's white.

Institute of heraldry cloth color specifications[82]
Name Absolute Relative
CIELAB D65 Munsell CIELAB D50 sRGB GRACoL 2006
L* a* b* H V/C L* a* b* R G B 8-bit hex C M Y K
White 88.7 −0.2 5.4 2.5Y 8.8/0.7 100.0 0.0 0.0 1.000 1.000 1.000 #FFFFFF .000 .000 .000 .000
Old Glory Red 33.9 51.2 24.7 5.5R 3.3/11.1 39.9 57.3 28.7 .698 .132 .203 #B22234 .196 1.000 .757 .118
Old Glory Blue 23.2 13.1 −26.4 8.2PB 2.3/6.1 26.9 11.5 −30.3 .234 .233 .430 #3C3B6E .886 .851 .243 .122
As with the design, the official colors are only officially required for flags produced for the U.S. federal government, and other colors are often used for mass-market flags, printed reproductions, and other products intended to evoke flag colors. The practice of using more saturated colors than the official cloth is not new. As Taylor, Knoche, and Granville wrote in 1950: "The color of the official wool bunting [of the blue field] is a very dark blue, but printed reproductions of the flag, as well as merchandise supposed to match the flag, present the color as a deep blue much brighter than the official wool."[83]

Sometimes, Pantone Matching System (PMS) approximations to the flag colors are used. One set was given on the website of the U.S. embassy in London as early as 1998; the website of the U.S. embassy in Stockholm claimed in 2001 that those had been suggested by Pantone, and that the U.S. Government Printing Office preferred a different set. A third red was suggested by a California Military Departmentdocument in 2002.[84] In 2001, the Texas legislature specified that the colors of the Texas flag should be "(1) the same colors used in the United States flag; and (2) defined as numbers 193 (red) and 281 (dark blue) of the Pantone Matching System."[85] The 2012 Identity and Marking Standards published by the Department of State specify PMS 282C blue and PMS 193C red, along with the corresponding RGB and CMYK values from Adobe InDesign 6.[76]" Wiki

 

SCOTUS already said we have a right to protect ourselves with firearms. What we should have are laws that allow us to confiscate weapons in the possession of senile or mentally ill people. Of course, we already have laws to deal with felons.

 

How about the kids who bled out?

 

So, do you support constitutional concealed carry?

 

If they could be blamed, they would be likely to be prosecuted or just punished.

But this will not be the case.

 

Okay there are about 24,500 give or take homicides a year 300 of those are done with so called assault weapons. So if you could snap you fingers and magically remove every assault gun from America tomorrow you might potentially reduce the number of homicides by 1.22 percent. However the greater likelihood is that you would simply change the murder weapon to another to some other type of weapon. I also wonder one of the reasons some of the mad men chose assault weapons simply because of the hype about them the alphabet soup .media is constantly putting out.

 

Many do fear getting caught, but not enough to stop them from illegal acts. But you're right about them not thinking like most of us.

 

Canada had a wildly expensive long-gun registry and scrapped it. Why? Because it wasn't worth it.



Handguns are doing most of the killing in this country. Banning semi-automatic rifles won't make much difference.

 

If we're in a do nothing mode, wait him out until he gets hungry or thirsty and comes out.

 

Evidently that was their great plan.

In order to justify their blunder the chief of police stated that he was under the impression that the situation had gone from active shooter to barricaded suspect.

Well of course it would if you waited for the guy to kill everybody in the damn room.

And a very ironic twist.... The chief of police calling the shots had recently undergone active shooter training ... According to an article that popped up under my Google headline on my phone last night